On AlterNet: food system

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Why Santa Barbara Is the Perfect Example of Our Messed Up Food System

Barry Estabrook, The Atlantic. February 16, 2011.

The agricultural county exports 99 percent of what is grown there while 95 percent of the fruits and vegetables consumed in the county are shipped in from elsewhere.

Hello Michelle Obama: Eaters Must Become More Political -- We Can't Just Vote With Our Forks

Wenonah Hauter, AlterNet. February 10, 2011.

In our broken food system, a few powerful players make all of the decisions about what we eat and write the rules for the economic survival of independent producers.

Why Women Who Pick and Process Your Food Face Daily Threats of Rape, Harassment and Wage Theft

Jill Richardson, AlterNet. January 26, 2011.

We all benefit from a hugely exploitative system, in which our dinner is now directly linked to violence against women.

5 Terrible Problems With the Way We Eat (And What You Can Do About Them)

Vanessa Barrington, EcoSalon. September 24, 2010.

Most of the problems in our food system stem from the concentration of power, land, wealth, and political influence in the hands of a few large players.

3 Things We Need for a Food Revolution

Anna Lappé, YES! Magazine. August 20, 2010.

As marketers learn to fake climate-friendly food, how do we spot the real thing? It's a question of values.

Is Whole Foods Sustainable or Just a High-Priced Hoax? I Took a Job There to Find Out

Jill Richardson, Ig Publishing. August 18, 2009.

Was Whole Foods truly sustainable, or was it just a high-priced version of the same food one could find in a conventional supermarket?

How We Can Free Ourselves from a Fossil-Fuel-Soaked Diet

Rebekah and Stephen Hren, Chelsea Green Publishing. June 11, 2009.

By gradually relocalizing our food production we can return to an agricultural system that is much less energy intensive.

Why Our Food System May Suffer the Same Fate as Our Financial System

Lisa M. Hamilton, AlterNet. June 11, 2009.

By consolidating, centralizing and homogenizing our food system, we've put all our proverbial eggs in one basket -- and that's a big risk.

Turning Your Lawn into a Victory Garden Won't Save You -- Fighting the Corporations Will

Stan Cox, AlterNet. June 23, 2008.

The corporate agriculture industry would like nothing better than to see us spend all of our free time in our gardens and not in political dissent.

Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World's Food System

Raj Patel, Melville House Publishing. June 2, 2008.

Hunger and obesity stem from the same problem -- the corporations that sell our food determine what we eat and how we think about food.

What Michael Pollan Hasn't Told You About Food

Onnesha Roychoudhuri, AlterNet. May 15, 2008.

As both obesity and hunger are on the rise, a new book shows why we shouldn't feel guilty about our food choices but angry with a corrupt food system.

The United States' Failing Food System

Kevin Danaher, Shannon Biggs, Jason Mark, PoliPoint Press. October 1, 2007.

An interview with a leading food expert on the crisis of the America food system, the fallacy of labels and the organic vs. local conundrum.